Conference
"ART IN PSYCHOTHERAPY, PSYCHOTHERAPY OF ART"

 Welcome to RGI Forum! ​
We are waiting for you in our forum, we hope to spend 3 unforgettable days together.

- ​Your Arturs Dombrovskis- RGI Director

“The Riga Gestalt Institute's conference is a significant annual event that has been bringing together professionals, researchers, and enthusiasts in the field of Gestalt therapy for more than two decades. Founded in 2001, this conference has become an important forum for discussing and developing Gestalt therapy principles and practice.

Forum Program

​Forum Attendance Program

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10.04.2026. (Friday)

​​14.00-14.30 - Registration 
14.30-15.00 – Forum's first day opening
15.00-16.00 – Arturs Dombrovskis - Art in Psychotherapy. Psychotherapy as Art       
16.00-16.25     – Coffee Break         
16.25-18.25 1.  Anastasia Semko – Creating Author's MāK Cards using Collage Technique    
2.  Brigita Pablaka – Art Therapy Method “FOREST”    
18.25 -19.00 - Process Group 

​11.04.2026. (Saturday)  

​11.00-11.10 – Forum's second day opening 
11.10-12.10–Lecture– Larisa Didkovskaya     
12.10-14.10 
1. Donaldas Duškinas – Gestalt Theater 
2. Lauma Kasatkina  –
14.10-15.30 – Lunch   
15.30-17.30
1. Anna Hudorožkova – Empathy towards oneself and others 
2.  Marija Nurminska  ​– 
3. Oksana Koļesņik – Phenomenology of Refugee Trauma: Experience of Loss, Identity, and Survival (based on motifs from M. Twain's novel “The Prince and the Pauper”)  
17.30–18.00 – Round Table, Latvian Gestalt Therapists Association 
18.05-20.05 - Anna Sergijenko, Olga Isajeva – Playback Theater Masterclass “In the Midst of Crisis”

​12.04.2026. (Sunday   

​11.00-11.10 – Forum's third day opening   11.10-12.10–Lecture - Jeļena Petrova - Psychotherapy as a Cultural Practice: Science, Engineering, Philosophy, or Art  
 12.10-12.40 –– Coffee Break     
12.40-14.40   
1. Nadežda Zeigliša – Searching for Good Forms  
2. Agita Sēja – Using Associative Drawing in Relationship Formation     
14.40-15.10 – Process Group   
15.15 -15.45 - Forum Closing  

​Forum Online Program

Register
10.04.2026. (Friday)

​​14.00-14.30 ​– Registration 
14.30-15.00 – Forum's first day opening
15.00-16.00 – Arturs Dombrovskis - Art in Psychotherapy. Psychotherapy as Art       
16.00-16.25  – Coffee Break         
​16.25-17.25 ​–  Anna Judin, Working with Guilt and Resentment Feelings
17.25-18.25  ​–    Anna Čepikova, Co-creation. Process between Autonomy and Meeting   
18.25 -19.00 ​– Process Group 

​11.04.2026. (Saturday)  

​11.00-11.10 – Forum's second day opening 
11.10-12.10–Lecture– Larisa Didkovskaya     
​12.10-13.10 –  Jeļena Koškina, Gestalt Perspective on Modern Family: Transformation of Couples and Various Relationships  
13.10-14.10 – Dr. Yosef Zislin, “Soul, Wanderer, Beggar” – Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry as a Profession and Folklore   
 14.10-15.30 – Lunch   
15.30-16.30 – Darja Freidinova, Teenager's Multiple Worlds: Self-Dynamics in Hybrid Reality 
16.30-17.30 – Vadims Grečka, Myths about Odysseus as a Psychotherapy Metaphor 
17.30-18.00- Process Group 

​12.04.2026. (Sunday   

​11.00-11.10 – Forum's third day opening 

11.10-12.10 – Lecture - Jeļena Petrova - Psychotherapy as a Cultural Practice: Science, Engineering, Philosophy, or Art    
12.10-12.40 ––  Coffee Break    
​12.40-13.40 – Darja Leonova, Irina Gorkova, Nostalgia – Obstacle or Bridge?     
13.40-14.40​ – Deniss Žeļateļevs, Contact Melodies       14.45-15.15 – Process Group    
15.15-15.45 – Forum Closing  

Riga Gestalt Institute invites you to participate in the conference
"Art in Psychotherapy, Psychotherapy of Art"
✅ April 10-12
📱 Jurmal, Pegasa Pils✈ format: hybrid (on-site and online on the Zoom platform)

Pieteikties

Why art?

Creativity is an integral part of the psychotherapy process. In the Gestalt approach, it manifests not only through artistic or expressive methods but also through the contact itself, presence, experimentation, and the emergence of new experiences in a living dialogue between the therapist and the client.

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Conference "Art in Psychotherapy, Psychotherapy of Art" is a space to explore:
– how creativity supports the therapeutic process,
– how psychotherapy becomes a place for creating new experiences and meanings,
– how a therapist can rely on their professional and human creativity.

The conference will take place in a hybrid format:
on-site program — in Jurmala,
online program — on the Zoom platform.
Participation is possible from any country.
During the conference, simultaneous interpretation will be provided: from Russian to Latvian,
from Latvian to Russian.

This conference is an opportunity to meet, think together, share experiences, get inspired, and broaden your professional perspective on psychotherapy as a living, creative, and evolving process.

We invite you to participate:
practicing psychotherapists and psychologists,
students of psychotherapy programs students,
representatives of helping professions,
teachers and researchers,
as well as anyone who is interested in the theme of creativity in psychotherapy and through psychotherapy.

We invite you to participate

Participation fee

We invite you to pay attention to the fact that the participation fee changes depending on the registration time. Early registration allows you to participate in the conference at a more favorable price.

Free of charge

 0 €

 

*Riga Gestalt Institute students (except supervisor training program students)
* all conference speakers
* workshop, masterclass and workshop leaders
 

Apply
until 27.02.2026.​

65 €

​ Latvian Gestalt Therapists Association (LGTA) members are eligible for a 10% discount.

LGTA members — 10% discount with promo code LGTA.​

​Apply ​
until
 12.03.2026.

75 €

​Latvian Gestalt Therapists Association (LGTA) members are eligible for a 10% discount.

LGTA members — 10% discount with promo code LGTA.​

​Apply ​
until
 10.04.2026.

95 €

​Latvian Gestalt Therapists Association (LGTA) members are eligible for a 10% discount.

LGTA members — 10% discount with promo code LGTA.​

​Apply

Contact us:​

​Phone: +37129528020
Email: gestalt.info@gmail.com
Address: Pegasa Pils, Jūrmala, Jūras iela 60
Website: www.gestalt.lv

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